My family has been battling a cold over the last few weeks: everyone is sneezing. This week, let’s take inspiration from the spray, and write about a sneeze (or two or three). Aa-choo!

Dana Schutz, Sneeze, 2001. Oil on canvas. Museum of Contemporary Art of Montreal, Montreal, Canada.

Heide Fasnacht. (Top) Sneeze I, 1997. Graphite on Paper. Philadelphia Museum. (Bottom) Sneeze IV, 2003. Hand punctures through rag paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. www.heidefasnacht.com

W. K.-L. Dickson, Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, 1894. Library of Congress. View film here.